The Method
A process, not a prediction.
How preparation, bias, condition, execution and review fit together, and the beliefs the whole thing is built on.
- STEPS
- 5, every session
- SESSION
- New York AM
- TAUGHT IN
- Urdu, Hindi
The person
Furqan Malick.
Furqan Malick is an ICT-based price action trader and educator. He teaches traders across Pakistan, India and the wider South Asian market, in Urdu and Hindi, the concepts he uses in his own execution system: how markets actually move and how to read them.
Furqan started trading in 2019, 7 years ago. Like most retail traders, he went through the usual confusion: jumping between concepts, chasing consistency, trying to understand how price actually moves. Over time he narrowed his focus to an ICT-based approach, then narrowed further into his own system, built around how he actually trades. Today he trades mostly indices, during the New York session.
He traded alongside a full-time job for years. He didn’t leave it until January 2024, and only after a full year of consistent, proven payouts. Not one good month. A full year. That’s the same bar he holds everything he teaches to.
The teaching side wasn’t planned. He started sharing his own analysis and process publicly. People started asking how he approached the market, and it grew from there into structured content and, eventually, a community.
He doesn’t sell predictions, and he doesn’t promise profits. What he teaches is how to understand price, build a system, and trade independently. That’s the only thing that actually held up for him.
FM Trades exists because the gap for most traders at this stage was never the concepts. It’s execution. That’s what the free education, the Private Community and 1-1 Mentorship are all built to close, in that order.
“Trading isn’t about predicting every move. It’s about understanding price, waiting for your conditions, managing risk, and executing your model with discipline. No setup. No trade. No forced execution. The goal is to create independent traders, not dependent followers.”
That’s not a mission statement written after the fact. It’s the actual filter every part of this method runs through. Probability, not prediction. A trader who can only follow calls hasn’t learned to trade; they’ve learned to wait for someone else’s decision. The method exists to remove that dependency, not to create a new version of it.
“No setup, no trade” is the part most people say and don’t actually mean. Here it’s enforced by the process itself: Condition, step three of five below, is a real gate, not a suggestion. If the market hasn’t shown a change in state of delivery at a marked PD array, there is nothing to do that day, and sitting on your hands is the correct trade.
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The spine
What this is built on.
What I believe
- Trading is probability-based, not prediction.
- Structure before execution.
- Consistency comes from psychology, not indicators.
- Risk management is non-negotiable.
What I reject
- Signals and dependency.
- Guaranteed profits.
- Get-rich-quick framing.
- Emotional marketing.
The method
The five steps, in depth.
Prepare, bias, condition, execute, review: the same sequence every session, in that order, every time.
- 01
Prepare
Review the calendar, mark key levels and set the day's bias before price moves against you.
Before New York opens, the day's actual work is already mostly done: which events on the calendar could move the market, where the key levels from the daily and weekly sit, and what the bias is going in. Preparation isn't a formality here. It's what makes everything after it a decision instead of a reaction.
- 02
Bias
Read market structure and liquidity to decide which way you're looking to trade, not which way you hope it goes.
Bias is read from structure and liquidity: where the market has been drawn to, where it's likely to be drawn next, not from a feeling about where price "should" go. A bias that can't be stated as a reason is a guess wearing a bias's clothes.
- 03
Condition
Wait for price to reach your PD array and confirm a change in state of delivery. No confirmation, no trade.
This is the gate. Price has to actually arrive at a PD array that was marked in preparation, and it has to show a change in state of delivery there. No PD array, no CSD, no trade, regardless of how strong the bias felt or how long the wait has been.
- 04
Execute
Enter with a defined invalidation and risk, sized before the trade, not after.
Entry, invalidation and position size are decided together, before the order goes in, not sized after the fact to fit however the trade is already going. If the invalidation can't be stated in one sentence before entry, the trade isn't ready to take yet.
- 05
Review
Log the trade, the reasoning and the outcome. Win or lose, the process gets reviewed the same way.
A winning trade taken outside the process gets reviewed as seriously as a loss taken inside it. The outcome is not the thing being graded. The process is, because the outcome of any single trade is mostly noise and the process is the only part that's actually yours to control.
Stated plainly
What this will not do for you.
This will not make you consistent in a week. The process is the same one used by anyone doing this seriously, and it takes the time it takes.
This will not guarantee a profitable month, a passed prop-firm challenge, or any specific result. No process removes the risk of loss.
This will not do the sitting-out for you. The hardest part of the method (waiting for condition, walking away with no setup) is still yours to do every single day.
This is not a source of trades to copy. It's a way of thinking through your own, and it only works if the thinking stays yours.
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